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JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0 The knowledge doesn't just reside with one person."

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Note: You can read the entire September Issue of NTEN:Change online for free. )

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APRIL 22, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Note: this was one of the most popular articles in the March Issue of NTEN:Change.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now seems like a good time for nonprofits to educate their constituents about the privacy issues surrounding these and other smart objects. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN's fearless leader, has a different view.

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JULY 25, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Note: You can read the complete June Issue of NTEN:Change online for free. What do you think?

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Data-Driven" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2011

We'll be posting highlights from this meeting of the minds on the NTEN blog. Is Tech the Best Solution? When weighing the costs and benefits of a new tech project, you’ll need to also weigh the priorities for the organization along with the priorities for the individuals involved. What is the problem?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

A couple of days ago, she made a call on her blog for academics to stop publishing articles in closed journals. Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. I agree with her that open journals are the future.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2012

Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] > Read more articles like this in NTEN:Change, a quarterly journal for nonpofit leaders! [Editor's note: The following is an article from NTEN:Change. By Paula Jones, Director of Technology, The N. Center for Nonprofits In my role at the N.C.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware (Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the feature article "Boosting Board Collaboration " , which appeared in the first issue of NTEN's new publication: NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders. Read the entire article and the complete issue by subscribing online.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

David Geilhufe ponders how technology solutions split communities, and issues of a lack of strategic vision. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media. I trust Allan’s gut instincts about CRM technology. It’s a great, thoughtful post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki. I also use it installed on my home desktop, for notes, journaling and the like. at 12:24 pm Scaling isn’t such a big issue with DokuWiki anymore. at 12:24 pm Scaling isn’t such a big issue with DokuWiki anymore.

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NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

This article is part of the June, 2013 issue of NTEN:Change, which is all about mobile. Your executive director and board members should be reading this quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders ! Leadership Mobile mobile apps nonprofit leaders nonprofit productivity nonprofit technology leaders nten:change'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features. After the webinar, I’ll be putting the slides up in varied places, and NTEN will have a recording of the webinar. {

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APRIL 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Peter Drury, a child's right a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective. We'd love to hear your stories!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. That’s a good thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. March 7, 2007 Next Monday, I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. .&# Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. .&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. This is a regular series in the nonprofit leadership journal. Read current and past issues by subscribing to the journal for free! ] I mean, they’re probably experts in all tech stuff since they can post lots of YouTube videos, right?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

I’ve been interested in issues of how we sustain open content for a long while. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. We’re really behind the concepts of cloud computing and Web 2.0.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine. at 2:30 pm Great breaking np tech news. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

One of the big beginning issues was that if a fan page was public, and it can have URLs, then that must be great for SEO , right? Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. That, of course, can spread virally. Facebook pages have huge page rank. Ads can be targeted by profile data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

It’s a lucky thing my partner has a laptop I can beg and borrow (stealing might cause issues.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Work doesn’t get done. Blog entries don’t get written. Emails don’t get returned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I have some great clients, and I feel like I get to be an educator – I spend lots of time educating my clients on the ins and outs of the varied technology issues presented (and what is, and is not a technology issue.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

Here's a roundup of recent work to address this issue. This spring, NTEN launched its Digital Inclusion Fellowship Program in which 16 young community leaders in eight Google Fiber communities will have paid internships for a year with local charities. The new NTEN fellows have just started their training. Citizens Online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

I realized that one of the most important things that we can do is educate the organizations we work with (as well as individuals) about privacy issues and data. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. But that’s not the point of this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Perhaps we don’t have to spend so much time on this issue anymore. My feeling from watching the conversations within the NTEN community is that people DO understand the acquisition costs of FOSS software. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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